From: ggm@algebras.org (George Michaelson)
Subject: [TUHS] 2018: eighteen months to the Unix 50th anniversary
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:06:33 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr6gn3sCD75HD+wOK9-5kq6TzH6-r8pisoZdZJM+vnF6-XOPw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1801111043140.53831@aneurin.horsfall.org>
If you're going to bring religion into it... Try this on the birth of
the ICL 2900..
(by D.W. barron, 1976)
http://algebras.org/ggm/oldtestament.html
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 9:48 AM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Andy Kosela wrote:
>
>> Christians also do not know the _exact_ year when Jesus was born, but they
>> arbitrary chose the date as the start of their Epoch.
>
>
> Not really arbitrary; the dates were chosen to hijack pagan festivals, so we
> have Christmas at Yuletide, Easter at the Spring fertility rites, etc.
>
> No way the big JC could've been born in the middle of winter in that part of
> the world; try about 4BC (Halley's comet) around Spring in March or so.
>
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
> suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-11 0:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-09 0:30 Warren Toomey
2018-01-09 0:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-09 2:16 ` Noel Hunt
2018-01-09 2:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-09 7:30 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-01-09 18:09 ` Warner Losh
2018-01-10 3:34 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-01-10 4:11 ` Warner Losh
2018-01-10 5:23 ` George Michaelson
2018-01-10 6:25 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-01-10 6:53 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-01-10 10:57 ` Warren Toomey
2018-01-10 16:53 ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-10 13:23 ` Andy Kosela
2018-01-10 23:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-11 0:06 ` George Michaelson [this message]
2018-01-11 22:08 ` Robert Brockway
2018-01-11 1:22 Noel Chiappa
2018-01-11 21:45 ` Clem Cole
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